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        <p>dates — 
      Returns as a string the date and time specified.
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        <h2>Description</h2>
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      Returns as a string the date and time specified.
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        <pre class="synopsis">Sir <span class="command"><strong>dates</strong></span> [ itime]</pre>
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        <h2>Initialization</h2>
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>itime</em></span> -- the time is seconds since the
      start of the epoch.  If omited or negative the current time is
      taken.
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>Sir</em></span> -- the date and time as a string.
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        <h2>Examples</h2>
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      Here is an example of the dates opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/dates.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">dates.csd</em></a>.

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            <strong>Example 168. Example of the dates opcode.</strong>
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<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsoundSynthesizer&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsOptions&gt;</span>
<span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span>
-odac     <span class="comment">;;;realtime audio out</span>
<span class="comment">;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too</span>
<span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span>
<span class="comment">; -o dates.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsOptions&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsInstruments&gt;</span>

<span class="ohdr">sr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 44100
<span class="ohdr">ksmps</span> <span class="op">=</span> 32
<span class="ohdr">nchnls</span> <span class="op">=</span> 2
<span class="ohdr">0dbfs</span> <span class="op">=</span> 1

<span class="ohdr">seed</span>     0 <span class="comment">;each time different seed</span>

<span class="oblock">instr</span> 1
<span class="comment">;;generating a different filename each time csound renders</span>
itim     <span class="opc">date</span>
Stim     <span class="opc">dates</span>     itim
Syear    <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 20, 24
Smonth   <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 4, 7
Sday     <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 8, 10
iday     <span class="opc">strtod</span>    Sday
Shor     <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 11, 13
Smin     <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 14, 16
Ssec     <span class="opc">strsub</span>    Stim, 17, 19
Sfilnam  <span class="opc">sprintf</span>  "<span class="op">%</span>s_<span class="op">%</span>s_<span class="op">%</span>02d_<span class="op">%</span>s_<span class="op">%</span>s_<span class="op">%</span>s.wav", Syear, Smonth, iday, Shor,Smin, Ssec
<span class="comment">;;rendering with random frequency, amp and pan, and writing to disk</span>
ifreq    <span class="opc">random</span>    400, 1000
iamp     <span class="opc">random</span>    .1, 1
ipan     <span class="opc">random</span>    0, 1
asin     <span class="opc">oscils</span>    iamp, ifreq, 0
aL, aR   <span class="opc">pan2</span>      asin, ipan
         <span class="opc">fout</span>      Sfilnam, 14, aL, aR
         <span class="opc">outs</span>      aL, aR
         <span class="opc">printf_i</span>  "File '<span class="op">%</span>s' written to the same directory as this CSD file is!\n", 1, Sfilnam

<span class="oblock">endin</span>

<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsInstruments&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;CsScore&gt;</span>
<span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 1
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsScore&gt;</span>
<span class="csdtag">&lt;/CsoundSynthesizer&gt;</span>
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      Its output should include lines like this:
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File '2011_Jan_05_19_14_46.wav' written to the same directory as this CSD file is!
Closing file '/home/user/csound/Output/2011_Jan_05_19_14_46.wav'...
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        <h2>See Also</h2>
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      <a class="link" href="date.html" title="date"><em class="citetitle">date</em></a>
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        <h2>Credits</h2>
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            <td>Author: John ffitch</td>
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            <td>University of Bath/Codemist Ltd.</td>
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            <td>Bath, UK</td>
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            <td>December 2006</td>
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        <p>New in Csound version 5.05</p>
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